Acknowledgements
The editors would like to acknowledge a number of individuals and institutions whose help and support have been invaluable in the conception and completion of this volume. We thank the contributors, who have been very patient and helpful throughout the process of putting together this volume, in the face of many rounds of revisions and demands on their time. As editors, we have been fortunate to work alongside an exceptional set of scholars, whose contributions will enhance our knowledge and understanding of the ways in which ancient rhetoric has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired, and criticised in representative genres, cultures, and spatio-temporal contexts.
We would like to extend special thanks to the Brill’s Companions to the Classical Reception Series for offering an excellent home for this project and in particular to head editor, Kyriakos Demetriou. Andreas Serafim would also like to thank two institutions, the University of Cyprus (2017–2019) and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2019–2020), for granting postdoctoral fellowships, during which some of the work on the volume was undertaken. He would also like to thank the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens for providing excellent research facilities that make the timely completion of this volume possible. Finally, many thanks are owed to Millie Gall for reading and commenting on several drafts of the introduction and other chapters.
A certain level of formatting standardisation has been imposed to ensure consistency across the volume, but individual stylistic distinctiveness has been respected.
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